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has a meeting with the Governor who’s flying down to do a joint press conference today.” Sofie can almost hear him wince as he admits the knowledge, expecting an explosive reaction from her and she doesn’t disappoint.
    “That slimeball! That miserable excuse for a man!” Sofie feels an urgent need to hit something, her fist clenched hard. “Of course, money was never going to be enough for a man like him, he needs power too. He needs everything. He’s using what he’s doing to the pack and the so-called protection of Beaumont as a political platform. People are going to lose their homes, their friends, their lives so that Luke Calambor can run for office! First stop governor then what’s next, the presidency?” The reality of Sofie’s words settles around her. Is that what this had been about all along? Luke using the ‘Lycan abomination’ to pave his way to becoming the most important man in America? Presidents had been elected for less…
    “Yeah, I thought you might connect those dots,” Finn responds uneasily, treading lightly in the wake of her last outburst. “But it won’t get to that point, not anywhere near it. We’ll get him before that. We’ll discredit him in front of the whole world, he’ll lose all his supporters and in a little while people will be asking Luke who?” Finn’s earnestness is contagious and Sofie finds herself nodding along in agreement with him, needing to believe.
    “I hope you’re right, Finn. But that won’t undo all the damage he’s done so far, the danger he’s put this pack and every other one like it in the country in. Nothing that we do can turn back the clock.” Sofie sits down heavily on the bed, feeling exhausted all over again.
    “Don’t beat yourself up for not having time travel on your list of accomplishments, Braun.” Finn’s tone is jokey but his meaning is clear.
    “Why break the habit of a lifetime?” Sofie smiles as she realizes Finn is accusing her of exactly the same thing she’d told Ashton that he couldn’t be angry at himself for. Takes one to know one, she thinks to herself. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons that she and Ashton were so right for each other, because they both take the weight of the world on their shoulders as if it were their duty. She feels the tension from her headache sliding down her neck and taking up residence in her shoulders. She rolls her shoulders, trying to work out the kinks in her muscles.
    “How’s Darwin doing?” She changes the subject, needing to talk about something outside of werewolves and a slimeball monster that walks in the guise of a man.
    “You know, he’s Darwin, he’s not exactly big on expressing his emotions.” Sofie can hear Finn shrug over the phone. “He misses you, although he would never admit to it.”
    Sofie smiles as she thinks about her mentor, the man that she had learnt so much from and who she had looked up to far more than she had her own father. Darwin was a good man, he’d just been pushed too far by Luke. Threatening Darwin with fabricating a non-existent affair to give his wife the upper hand in the divorce and to make his daughters hate him was a low blow, even for Luke. But perhaps there wasn’t anything too low for him anymore. Luke had proven that he was prepared to go to any lengths to get what he wants. She doesn’t allow herself to dwell on the fact that he wants her and her association with the pack and relationship with Ashton don’t seem to have cooled his desire for her in the least.
    “I miss him too. I miss both of you.” Her voice wavers as she says the words. She’s been battling under the force of her emotions and now it seems they were threatening to seep out of her.
    A noise in the doorway makes her spin around, still on edge. But it’s not Luke or one of his cronies standing there, it’s Ashton, arms folded, looking every inch the Pack Master. His expression starts off as serious, becoming furious as his gaze lands on the cell in her